Gas torch



Ap 1947- G. LwALKER GAS TORCH Filed Jan. 26,

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Patented All l'. s, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE p i GAS 'roc GeorgeL. Walker, Jersey City, N. J.,` assignor to Air Reduction Company, Incorporated, a. corporation of New York Application January 26, 1944, Serial No.`519,775

e This invention relates to torches such as oxyacetylene torches, and more particularly to torches of the block-tip type intended for such uses as descaling 'or flame-cleaning metal surfaces.

- In descaling or name-cleaning, or performing similar Operations by the use of gas torches, it is advantageous to utilize high velocity and highly oxidizing fiame jets; but with torches heretofore used for this purpose, there is a-tendency for the flames to blow away from the tip and blow out if high velocity jets are employed. Moreover, if the tip of such a torch becomes too hot, there is danger of flashbacks, so it is customary to make use of water-cooled tips. The principal object of this invention is to provide a descaling or flame-cleaning torch having a tip of the block type so designed that it is capable of being operated very hot with no possibilityof flashbacks and so that high velocity and highly oxidizing ame jets can be employed without danger of the flames blowing away from the tip or blowing out. 4

According to the nvention, "one or more series of fuel gas jets and a series of oxygen jets issue from the face of the block-tip and the face is provided with an elongated recess into which the fuel gas jets or both the fuel gas and oxygen jets are discharged. 'I'he oxygen does not mix with the fuel gas within the torch tip to'produce a 2 Claims. (c. isa-27.4)

mixture which is discharged into the recess, but

the gases mix externally of the tip.` Since the torch thus works on the external mixing principle, the danger of flashbacks is eliminated and the torch tip can be operated as hot as desired without causing flashbaclm. Users prefer a descaling or flamecleaning torch whose tip can withstand such a high temperature because then v it need not be water-cooled thus eliminating the necessity of hoses for cooling-water which are obiectlonable and inconvenient when descaling or flame-cleaning since the torch has to be moved over large areas. The longitudinal recess in the face of the tip into which the fuel gas passages i ken Fi 4 is a bottom view of the torch tip shown in Fig. 1 looking toward the face of the tip.

The torch illustrated in the drawing comprises an elongated block-tip l having a. recess 2 in its lower face extending lengthwise of' the block. The block has two rows of fuel gas passages 3 and 4 terminating in two rows of discharge orifices 5 and 6, respectively, in the bottom of the recess 2 as shown in Fig. 4. The passages 3 are all fed with fuel gas, such as acetylene, from a distributing chamber 'I located within the block and extending lengthwise of it. Fuel gas may be supplied to the distributing chamber, 'I through a vertical passage 8 in the block communicating with a gas supply pipe 9. Similarly the passages 4 are all fed with fuel gas, such as acetylene, from a second distributing chamber o within the block and extending lengthwise thereof parallel to the distributing chamber 1. The fuel gas may be supplied to the distributing chamber ID through a vertical passage ll` communicating with a second gas supply pipe I2. 4

Oxygen is supplied to the torch through a third pipe !3 and passes througha vertical passage M (Figs. 1 and 3) into a third distributing chamber !5 extending lengthwise of the block and disposed parallel to the distributing chambers 'l and o; The oxygen is distributed by the chamber !5 to a longitudinal series of vertical passages IG extending toward the recess 2. In the form of the invention illustratd in Figs. 1 to 4, the passages IS do not discharge the oxygen directly into the recess 2 but each of the passages IS discharges through a nozzle !11 fltted into the block and projecting at least partly through the recess. The nozzles preferably project completely through the recess and terminate substantially flush with the extreme lower portions `l8 of the tip-face as shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

It will now be seen that the fuel gas and the oxygen do not mix within the torch tip but the oxygen issuing in a series of jets from the nozzles l'l mixes with the fuel gas issuing from the two series of orifices 5 and 6 in the bottom of the recess, and the mixing of the oxygen and fuel gas therefore takes place outside of the torch tip to form a combustible mixture which feeds the flames. The ongitudinal recess 2 into the bottom of which the fuel gas discharges around the nozzles ll, has been found to be highly eflectiv in eliminating the tendencyof the flames to blow away from the face of the tip and blow out.

Therefore the torch may be so designed and operated that the oxygen jets or fuel gas jets or both are relatively high velocity jets. It is well underchambers 'l and ID.

aciassa stood in the art that higher flame temperatures are obtained by increasing the oxygen-acetylene ratio up to 2% to 1 'or even higher. and higher flame temperatures are an important factor in descaling. However. gas mixtures having high oxygen-acetylene ratios are so explosive that they flashback readily in an ordinary torch tip after the torch becomes hot. With a torch tip oi' the kind above described, the ratio og oxygen to acetylene can be as high as desired.

If desired, fuel gas may be supplied to the distributing chamber !5 instead of oxygen, and the oxygen may be supplied to the distributing `I claim: t

1. A' gas torch comprising an elongated block tom face oi said recess and terminating within the recess, each of said nozzles communicatlng with one of said gas passages, a. second series of as passages formed in the solid block and termnating in discharge oriflces in the bottom face a of the recess. and means for delivering oxygen discharged directly from said oriflces in the bothaving a recess in its lower face extending lengthwise oi' the block, a series of nozzles carried by the block projecting into and through said recess and terminating substantially flush with the lower-most portion of the tip-face, said nozzles forming a seriesvof gas passages, a series of gas passages inthe block opening' into the bottom of the recess, and' means for delivering oxygen to all of the 'gas passages of one series and fuel gas to all of the gas p'assages of the other series. i

2. A gas torch comprising an elongated solid block having a recess in its lower face extending lengthwise of the block, a series of gas passages formed in the solid block each of which extends toward the bottom face of said recess substantally at right angles thereto, a series of nozzles carried by the block and projecting from the bottom face of the recess.

GEORGE L. WALKER.

REFEBENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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